SALMON, sä′mŭn, George (1819-1904). An Irish mathematician and divine, born in Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College in that city, where he became a fellow at the age of twenty. He took orders, and in 1866 became professor of theology. He wrote extensively on theology, his works including an Introduction to the Studyof the New Testament (7th ed. 1894); Non-miraculous Christianity (2d ed. 1888); and TheInfallibility of the Church (2d ed. 1891). But he is best known for his masterly treatises on mathematics, his text-books being the most advanced that have appeared in English in his generation. These works are: Treatise on ConicSections (6th ed. 1879); Treatise on HigherPlane Curves (3d ed. 1879); Treatise onAnalytic Geometry (1848); Treatise on AnalyticGeometry of Three Dimensions (4th ed. 1882); Lessons Introductory to the Modern HigherAlgebra (1859; 4th ed. 1885). These mathematical works have been translated into several languages, and the German editions of Fiedler are especially well known.